Evaluation: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Due to me evaluating my trailer and ancillary tasks independently it is now also important that I consider how well they work together. Personally I think that they all work really well in correlation with on and other due to the same theme falling across all my pieces, which ties them together nicely.

One of the reasons I feel this is the case is due to my trailer and ancillary tasks all incorporated a similar colour scheme. I have made it so they are all quite white and blue-based images, giving them all a certain dark and depressing feel. The way I did this for my ancillary tasks were by fading the colour saturation and creating a far more darker and depressing feel to my images. I then carried this onto my film trailer by lowering the colour intensity of my footage this also helped by me filming some shots in the snow to give a cold edge to my trailer, which also reflected in my movie poster, as the sky in the background is a murky white colour. I think sticking to a colour scheme across all boards of my trailer makes it look professional and well put together. 

 

I also feel like the text of my trailer and ancillary tasks work really well together as although the same text hasn’t been consistent (because that wouldn’t look right individually) the texts are of a similar genre and all fit into the same category. I think this ties all the pieces together well as due to them being of a similar text and colour it is clear they are linked and incorporate elements of each piece separately. 

 

Another way my trailer and ancillary tasks worked well together was through me always promoting my film fixation with the same character. I always used my main character Hayley for every media format whether it was during the trailer, to on my poster. This was so I could create a face for the film and make sure everything worked well together and made sense in order to promote it in a way that looked as realistic as possible.  My audience could the connect the two and easily identify the main character and how much the film is centered on her. 

A way that I could of created a better combination between my trailer and ancillary tasks would be through making the tag line a more prominent feature in my trailer. My tag line is ‘every move you make, every breath you take’ and originally is as going to incorporate this song in my trailer but I found that it didn’t fit my footage well. So it would of worked well if I had found a way to include this in my trailer and utilized the tag line being unique and interesting.  

Altogether I feel like my trailer and ancillary tasks fit really well and compliment each other in all the right areas.